New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
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<strong>New</strong> <strong>Classic</strong> <strong>Poems</strong><br />
People and Places<br />
Whispering an age-old story:<br />
Evil works must all decay.<br />
Every tyrant’s pride and glory<br />
Shall in ruins rot away.<br />
Jungle vines shall twine together<br />
Over towers and ramparts tall.<br />
Blasted by the rain and weather,<br />
Monuments erode and fall.<br />
Who shall then fear priest or master<br />
When the temple’s overthrown,<br />
Leaving only mocking laughter<br />
Echoing on crumbling stone<br />
Passage to Point Barrow<br />
Wiley Clements<br />
Four cargo vessels plowing furrows forward<br />
thru Bering swells serene as polished glass,<br />
a pair of blowing whales appears to nor’ward<br />
between the Diomedes and Seward plying.<br />
The captains close at half-speed, not to pass<br />
but make them sound, to see their great flukes flying.<br />
As pride will suffer no leviathan<br />
to sport with little men at their behest,<br />
they sink, enormous, soundless, darker than<br />
the continents that loom to east and west.<br />
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